Other service activities, turnover (discontinued), 2nd period 2009

National level. Breakdown of data on the level of counties: Hairdressing and other beauty treatment.

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Timeliness: The Statistic is disseminated about 16 weeks after the end of the period. Revised figures are disseminated 2 and 4 months after the first dissemination.

Not relevant

Information about the units (micro level) and the population is stored in the programme language SAS.

The statistics are supposed to map out the level and development in turnover within other service activities. The numbers for repair of computers and personal and household goods starts in 2008, while other personal services activites starts in 1998.

Public services, private organizations and individuals use the statistics. The Section for National accounts at Statistics Norway is another important user.

The statistics is being worked out simultaneously as statistics for other VAT bound industries. The distribution key for the turnover for businesses within enterprises is being collected from Statistic Norway's Business Register annual file. Data on employment are gathered from the Register of Employees and Employers (the AA-register).

The Statistics Act, Section 3-2

Not relevant

The population consists of units registered in the VAT register within repair of computers and personal and household goods (95) and other personal activities (96) according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007). Units owned by the public, at national, regional or local level are excluded from the population. The statistical unit is as a rule identical to the reporting unit, i.e. an enterprise with a turnover exceeding NOK 50 000 a year.

The VAT register

Full census survey.

The statistics are register-based. The questionnaires containing information about turnover are sent to the respective county tax offices. The county tax offices transmit data to the Directorate of Taxes once a week. Statistics Norway receives data from the Directorate of Taxes two times each period. The deadline for sending questionnaires to the county tax offices is 1 month and 10 days after the end of the period. The data are sent to Statistics Norway about three weeks later.

Turnover is controlled against earlier received data. If the divergence is considerable, the individual VAT-unit is contacted. Information from the VAT-register is controlled against the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises and the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities.

For the bimonthly statistics the data anre summed up. When a VAT-unit consists of more than one active firm, the data is being divided according to registered turonover in the last annual data file from the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises or the Register of Employees and Employers ( the AA-register).

If a table cell consists of less then three observations, the data for the actual table cell are not being published. This is necessary because it would be possible to identify the individual data from the actual enterprises. This is particularly important for regional data.

Previously, the information to the Norwegian Tax Administration and the local tax administrations only included turnover affected by VAT-legislation. From the 1st period in 2001, the turnover figures are based on information both affected by VAT-legislation and information that is not. Because of this, the figures from the1st period in 2001 and onwards are not fully comparable with previous periods.